Keep on top of mobile work

If there is any message for the CIO this year, it's this: Get smarter faster. And one way to do that is to tap into existing tools that will help you comply with outside and inside forces for doing business. One of them is an auditing and archiving tool called Retain by GWAVA, which provides enterprise security and policy compliance products. This technology allows users on BlackBerry smartphones to archive text messages and phone logs.

As the need for archiving grows with new demands for eDiscovery and a plethora of information online, CIOs need all the help they can get to keep track of the Internet world and their employees. There's an added benefit, too. IT executives can view the database with the Retain Archive Viewer at their workstations. And they can obtain records using search criteria or choose to be alerted when keywords appear in text messages. It may be important to know what an employee is doing during the workday, especially if it impacts the daily and long term work. And it may be even more important if a company gets a subpoena for electronic information relating to any aspect of a job to make sure that electronic data can be retrieved.

For more on archiving mobile technology:
- Check out this InformationWeek Article